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BOD: I feared for my brain from rugby

THE former Ireland rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll has joined the growing debate about head injuries in rugby, confessing to concerns about his health and that of former teammate Jonathan Sexton.

In his first one-to-one newspaper interview since retirement two years ago, O’Driscoll said: “After I finished I felt as though I was slowing down a small bit. I just felt as though my co-ordination wasn’t quite the same, so I went and got a load of neurological tests and scans just to be sure.

“Excuse the pun, but I think it was in my head. When you are doing something for 15 years and then you stop for six months, of course your co-ordination is going to be down a fraction. So I had the tests and everything was fine.”

Like O’Driscoll, Sexton has suffered several knocks to the head and been tested for concussion, prompting concerns over the player’s